This is an analysis of the poem By The Cliffs Of The Sea that begins with:
In a far-away glen of the hills,
Where the bird of the night is at rest,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcdedefcfcgcgcgege bebeababdede hahaacacieie jejeffffkeke bbbbfffflele djdjgXgfbebe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,12,12,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001011001 101001011 10001011 01101001 001001101 001101001 11101001 001001001 101101011 01011101 101011001 001101001 11011111 11001001 11011011 111001001 001001001 001001001 11001001 11101001 11011111 11001011 11011001 11001101 00101111 101101011 11111001 11011001 00110101 01001001 101001011 01001011 01001001 01011011 11011001 001011101 00101001 01101001 11101001 11001001 11101011 101001001 11101011 001001001 001001001 11101001 11001101 001101001 11101111 101011001 101001011 01011001 001001011 101001001 11001001 01111001 11001001 01011001 11011011 01101101 001001001 001111011 11001001 101001101 11000111 11001001 11001001 11011001 01001001 11001001 11101011 001101001 01101001 0010010001 11001001 01001001 0100110001 110110110 11001001 111101011 01001011 101101001 11101001 101101001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 474
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, in, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words so, the, in are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word sea at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of By The Cliffs Of The Sea;
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